![]() ![]() Repositioning is an important aspect of sabaki. ![]() Sabaki is often used to avoid omoi katachi (heavy shape). However, the idea of shape is often related to the method of sabaki. 40: Please note that sabaki does not refer to shape rather, it is a way of playing. Strategic Concepts of Go, fifth printing, p. An almost identical sentence can be found in Go World 83, published autumn 1998: make good shape, rich in eye potential, so that your stones, if attacked, can easily make eyes or escape. The opponent may not like the result and play different, in which case one can then be satisfied with the indirect defense of a weakness and better follow up moves for making good shape. Meanwhile, one makes sabaki by building outside thickness or a formation where eyes can be attained. This often involves a sacrifice which serves to force the opponent to go around capturing before he can resume to attack. use forcing moves before playing a vital point. To avoid a heavy group, one can kind of reposition, step aside, with a light move that aims to utilize a coming attack for the (quick) development of stones, i.e. ![]() A group that ends up as heavy has failed to make sabaki. Though sabaki does not refer to shape rather, it is a way of playing, it is often used to avoid heavy shape. techniques that are the opposite of clumsy play. ![]()
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